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A Cheerful Year Book 



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A 

Cheerful Year Book 



FOR THE RECORDING OF 



Engagements and Other Serious Matters 

ACCOMPANIED BY 

Philosophic and Moral Aphorisms for the Instruction of Youth, 
the Inspiration of Maturity and the Solace of Age 

BY 

F. M. KNOWLES 

The same being Illustrated with Tasteful and Illuminating 
Pictures 

BY 

C. F. LESTER 

And the whole Introduced and Concluded with 
Profound and Edifying Remarks 

BY 

CAROLYN WELLS 




NEW YORK 

HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 

1906 






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LIBRARY of CONGRESS 
Two Copies Received 

OC1 13 ! 906 

^ Copyright Entry 

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CLASS A XXc\, No, 

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COPY B. 




Copyright, 1906 

BY 

HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 
Published October, zoo6 



ROBERT DRUMMOND, PRINTER, NEW YORK 



A 



PROLOG 

late lamented poet said that * Life is 
earnest, Life is real ' ; but when this 
volume you have read, quite differently you 
may feel. Though life is earnest to a poet, 
I 'tis frivolous to us who know it. Reality and 
j earnestness are noble qualities indeed ; a store 
of them we should possess to draw upon in 
time of need. But Life presents us for our 
choosing, a lot of things much more amusing. 

'The average citizen to-day has far more lives 
than any cat; just think it over and you'll say, 
upon mature reflection, that the Foolish Life is 
much less trouble than Simple, Strenuous or 
Double. In the well-balanced intellect, in the 
well-rounded thinking mind, a taste for nonsense 
we detect, a love of foolery we find. And in 
this vale of tears, no one entirely lacks a sense 
of fun. Jocosity's a splendid thing, a world of 
joy lies in a jest; and Humor, just like Hope, 
will spring eternal in the human breast. And I 



17" PROLOG 



opine the average sinner enjoys a joke as well 
as dinner. 

Then what a pleasure it must be to bubble 
forth spontaneous fun in quick and witty repar- 
tee, in clever epigram or pun, and print them 
in a cheerful book where every one is glad to 
look ! The essayist must write with care ; the 
poet has to court his muse ; the novel-writer 
must beware lest some old hackneyed plot he 
use ; and even a good-natured critic must be 
abstruse and analytic. The humorist has an 
easy task, his hardest work is merely play ; nor 
leave nor license need he ask, he skips along a 
primrose way. 

His joy of course is tenfold greater when 
working with an illustrator. You know on His- 
tory's earliest page primitive man hewed out 
his jokes, and each successive passing age has 
shown its batch of funny folks ; until to-day on 
Fame's fair rolls we see the name of F. M. 
Knowles. 

To be a fool is easy, yes. But ah, my friends, 
'tis not the same to write the sort of foolishness 
that brings you glory, wealth and fame; but 
Knowles is jest this sort of jester; so is his 
colleague, Mr. Lester. 

Oft nen and pencil side by side harmonious 



PROLOG 



work. And yet it seems they are more closely 
co-allied in humorous than serious themes; and 
to this book's diverting text amusing pictures 
are annexed. 

This masterly and able work deserves my 
utmost panegyric; within its veiled allusions 
lurk sharp shafts sagacious and satiric. And I 
would like to call attention to just a few that I 
shall mention. 

For instance, take the one that shows how 
many a man in love is reckless ; and as a birth- 
day gift bestows upon his love a diamond neck- 
lace, with thirty stones to mark her years,— 
then wonders why she bursts in tears! Who 
wisely gives this due reflection will hie him to 
a diamond store, and sapiently make selection 
of twenty-three or twenty-four. Thus he judi- 
ciously may save the price which for this book 
he gave. 

Although it sometimes seems to me no man 
could so far lose his wits as to sit calmly on a 
tree, and saw the limb on which he sits ; yet I 
don't ratify or doubt it, I'm only here to talk 
about it. 

Then note this wisdom unalloyed : " The 
smaller foot, the greater shoebill." A thinking 
man may thus avoid an awkward and enormous 



vi PROLOG 



duebill, and fill with joy his wedded life, by 
choosing a large-pedalled wife. A young man 
this advice should take, faith in this foot-rule 
he should put; and shun as he would shun a 
snake the dainty lass with tiny foot; then turn 
appreciative eyes toward buxom maids with feet 
of size. 

This theory leads us on to think (the mind 
performs such quick contortion!) if size of feet 
make shoebills shrink exactly in inverse pro- 
portion, — if large feet make a shoebill small, 
what size would mean no bill at all ? 

Again, as we may taste among these pungent 
literary spices, this piquant morsel bites our 
tongue, — " Who has no virtues has no vices." 
A mind well freed from all delusion must draw 
this ethical conclusion : 

Of virtues fain we'd be possest, but they 
command such fearful prices. So we're de- 
lighted to invest in some well-recommended I 
vices ; and as our lists of vices mount, thus 
virtues add to our account. 

But why take up this time and space ? I'm 
sure 'twere better if I ceased saying this some- 
what lengthy grace when you're impatient for 
the feast. (Although I deem this Introduction a 
gem of verbalesque construction.) 



PROLOG vii 



I can't say all that's in my mind, I'm ham- 
pered by convention's strictures ; but I am sure 
that you will find amusement in these jokes and 
pictures ; for in a jest or sketch (or rhyme,) 
skilled labor gets there every time. 

But how I rattle on ! And truly, I do detest 
to seem diffuse ; my old goose-quill is so un- 
ruly when once it starts. And what's the use ? 
I know you'll own this book yourself, and keep 
it on your handiest shelf. 



I 



THE AUTHORS' APOLOGY 

UPON the word of several truly great and 
noble jokesmiths, there are only seven 
basic jests in existence, and all others are but 
sidelights, as it were. Inasmuch as the original 
seven have had their tails pretty severely twisted 
in the present instance, we feel that, notwith- 
standing Miss Carolyn Wells' introduction and 
benediction, something in the way of an Authors' 
Apology is no more than fair to the public. 

Imprimis, we had considered dedicating the 
book " to those who found within it no mirror 
of themselves " and, in a generally modest and 
retiring way, making a quick retreat into the 
middle distance of a few personal platitudes. 
But, having read Miss Wells' comments, we are 
convinced that anything introductory from us 
would be worse than superfluous. We had no 
idea just how sweet and tasty these few pic- 
tures and aphorisms were, until we had bathed 
our souls in Miss Wells' gems of metered 



THE AUTHORS' APOLOGY 

thought. Now a soft air of contentment lulls us 
to gentle revery as we seem to hear in swelling \ 
cadences the mellifluous music of her epics try- 
ing to grasp our hands across a verbal chasm, 
strewn with jasmine and daffy-down-dillies. 
(Our metaphor may be a bit tangled, but no 
doubt the reader will catch the idea.) There- 
fore, of course, we have nothing at all to say — 
and are trying hard to say it. 

That someone, sometime, somewhere may have 
expressed ideas somewhat similar to some few 
of those that are to follow, is possible. But we 
feel that, in such an event, it is doubtful if any 
will be found willing to confess it. So, with the 
simple request that the public be sure to read 
Miss Wells' brilliant epitome of the art of being 
a humorist, and without further apology on our 
own part, we who are guilty of the coarse sub- 
stance of this little volume tender it solely for 
what there is in it. 

Frederick Milton Knowles. 
Charles Fitch Lester. 



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EPILOG 

DEAR FRIEND, I'm sure you'll now admit 
I didn't do too much extolling; 
I didn't overdo a bit 

My little task of prolog-rolling. 
And I am sure you now agree 
In the opinions held by me. 

Of course there may be many a tome 
Filled with more prosy erudition ; 

This little whiff of froth and foam 
May not attract a grave logician. 

But of the human rank and file 

The greater part will read and smile. , 

And truly, is it not the best 

And most praiseworthy of employment^ 
To rouse within the human breast 

A sense of humorous enjoyment ? 
To cause two smiles to bud and blow 
Where only one smile used to grow ? 



EPILOG 



Then whatsoe'er your creed or birth, 

If clergy or if laity, 
If you opine this book of mirth 

Adds to the nations' gayety, 
Assist in its dissemination 
And join with me in adulation. 

So many people will be glad 
To read this cheerful little year-book ; 

The old, the young, the good, the bad, 
Will all consider it a dear book. 

(I mean that in affection's sense, 

And not regarding the expense.) 

If you've a friend in rugged health, 

Or one who isn't well at all ; 
If you've a neighbor of great wealth, 

Or one whose income's rather small, 
Read him some extracts, and you'll find, 
He, you and I are of one mind. 

But why, oh, Reader, should I tarry, 
Belauding Lester, praising Knowles ? 

They've won more wreaths than they can carry, 
Newcastle is no place for coals ; 

And so, reluctantly I say 

Good-by, — and tear myself away. 

Carolyn Wells. 



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